My post is in response to the ekphrasis challenge at the Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, where we are invited to write a poem inspired by a painting of Spanish Impressionist Joaquin Sorolla. I fell in love with his painting, "A Rooftop With Flowers," the first image featured here, which to me seems full of light and hope and passion. I believe the red flowers in containers he depicted in the painting are geraniums, some of my favorite blooms. Sorolla's painting inspired my poem as well as my digital photo art. My poem is in anaphora style, which uses repetition for emphasis. I took a photograph of a bouquet of sunflowers and geranium blooms and gave my image a painterly effect. Well, mine is not quite an impressionistic painting, but I sure had fun trying! Enjoy!

I'm sure there are rooftops safe for dancing, and Sorolla's looks like one of them.Your photo/painting is wonderful. I thought it was a Sorolla painting I had missed!A wonderful response to the prompt.K

"no matter what life throws at me i will catch it like a bridal bouquet" this has to be one of my favorite lines of yours ever! I just love it and it's such a great way to look at life. Your image is so beautiful as well. Really great work, Loredana!

I think they're geraniums, too, and that is actually one of my very favorite paintings of Sorolla--you captured the passion and intensity well, the play of light and color in life as well as the garden, and I was reminded a bit of Neruda in some of your phrasings, which is a tribute indeed, and also fits the mood. Thanks so much for participating.

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